David Corliss shares highlights from the ASA Symposium on Data Science & Statistics, where open-source LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation systems are reshaping how we use health data for good.
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My ASA Story: Mark Daniel Ward, Professor and Executive Director of The Data Mine
Mark Daniel Ward, statistics professor at Purdue and executive director of The Data Mine, loves working with the American Statistical Association. He says, “I am always looking for new ways to contribute to the ASA’s broad reach and impact.” Take a look at his ASA story to learn how he contributes.
Practical Significance Take Two—Talking Shop: Introducing the ASA Caucus of Industry Representatives
This interview with Ginger Holt, senior staff data scientist at DataBricks, and Amarjot Kaur, executive director at Merck, was conducted by Practical Significance co-hosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein during a recent podcast. If you missed the show, this is your opportunity to learn about the recently formed ASA Caucus of Industry Representatives, which will help promote statistics and data science in the private and public sectors and provide resources to successfully advocate for the discipline.
Workshop Focuses on Role of Statistics in LLM Era
The Columbia University Department of Statistics, New York City Metro Area Chapter of the ASA, and ASA Section on Text Analysis sponsored a workshop on large language models during which participants had an in-depth conversation about the roles of statistics in an era of LLMs—not only the opportunities for statistical innovations, but also the potential risks.